Gardens

Gardens

“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.”Minnie Aumonier Henri Le Sidaner – Hydrangeas, 1918.
Sensitivity and magic

Sensitivity and magic

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”Roald Dahl Sir Frank Dicksee – The Sensitive...
Courage

Courage

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you...
Beginnings

Beginnings

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, And next year’s words await another voice, And to make an end is to make a beginning.”T.S. Eliot – Four Quartets, 1936. Leo Gestel – Autumn,1909.
Beginnings

Beginnings

“I don’t pay attention to theworld ending.it has ended for memany timesand began again in the morning.”Nayyirah Waheed Frederick Carl Frieseke – The Pink Kimono, 1903.